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68|Much rain during the last week : have kept a brisk fire 
.| inthe day, and admitted air. The vines look finely. 
Continue thinning and shouldering the bunches, 
after cutting out about one half their number. [By 
shouldering is understood tying up the shoulders 
on the large clusters to the trellis,'so that they may 
not press upon the lower part of the bunch.] 
73\Plenty of air admitted. 
54/Grapes now swelling off finely. 
71|Abundance of moisture kept up. 
'73/A fine rain to-day. The month has been rather coal} 
several nights the past week the earth has frozen 
slightly. The grapes are now swelling finely. Con 
tinue to thin the fruit daily. 
68/The process of thinning the berries continued, taking 
’ out some almost every day, and always the smallest 
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74| Abundance of air given in fine weather. 
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72\Next vear’s bearing wood carefully laid in, 
